A sporting success

The 2018 Commonwealth Games will see up to 6500 athletes and officials from 71 countries compete at 18 sports venues over a period of 11 days.

ClientGold Coast Commonwealth Games 2018 Corporation (GOLDOC)

ExpertiseBIM coordination

As part of our engagement with the client, we provided a full-time BIM co-ordinator to oversee processes and identify new efficiencies. One focus was to overhaul the way building services load schedules are produced. We devised a bespoke solution using Dynamo, a visual scripting language, to load information from an Excel spreadsheet onto an overlay design model, carry out necessary calculations and produce load schedule summaries.

With traditional load schedules, the value is lost as soon as the design changes or new engineering information is received. However, our bespoke solution provided an agile and powerful tool which keeps load data current as the model is updated.

This automated process reduces the time it takes to produce load schedules by over 95% compared to traditional methods. Taking into account the 18 venues and the continuous updates to designs between planning and the end of the event, our work will cut several hundred working hours from the schedule, allowing public money to go further, while helping to deliver an efficient and successful Commonwealth Games.